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AI for Gen Z

What digital technology is doing to our brains, our future, and the generation coming of age inside it.

A generation is coming of age inside a technology nobody has finished understanding.

I research what happens to cognition, identity, agency, and beliefs about minds when a generation grows up inside conversational AI. The work runs through 150+ conversations, a book, and a research report in progress.

Now: Chief of Staff at New Sapience, a deterministic-AI company founded by veterans of DARPA, NASA, and the NSA.
Research: The First AI-Native Generation. A report, policy brief, and framework on how sustained interaction with conversational AI affects development. November 2026.
Book: AI for Gen Z. What digital technology is doing to our brains, our future, and the generation coming of age inside it.
Podcast: 150+ conversations with researchers, scientists, and philosophers, including Karl Friston and Avi Loeb.
Building: The Center for Innovating the Future, a Toronto institution studio, and AI Skepticism, a convening series on AI claims and the evidence behind them.
Based: Montreal. English and French.